Why, semantics is just the difference between what you say and what you mean.  How important could that possibly be?

A MARSOC Marine once, in explaining to me how much he enjoyed his work, took an aside to assure me that he did not enjoy killing, of course, but it sure was rewarding to smoke-check a few terrorist hostage-takers in the process of liberating their captives. Is it wrong to enjoy killing?  Or is it…

If another child on the playground takes your Oreos, or knocks over your stick fort, and that makes you angry, does that mean it is necessary for you to punch him in the nose?  Of course not.  You are taught early on that your anger does not justify lashing out, that you don’t get to…

An emotion is a holistic physiological reaction to a perception.  It is the sum total of your autonomic, visceral, and hormonal reactions to something you perceive to have occurred. I don’t say that emotions are only this, because it would be incorrect to describe something as “mere” which is not mere.  Your emotions are not…